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HON. ANDREW j. GOULD.
Member of Assembly from Seventy-s
ond District, Alpine, Mono and Inyo


ond District, Alpine, Mono aud Inyo.
Hon. A. ]. Gould is the only member of
the House who represents q territory en-
bracing three counties. He resides in the
town of Darwin, Inyo county, and also
represents Alpine and Mono counties. He
was born in Mt. Carmel, H., in April. 1928.
He came to California, plotting a mule
team across the plains, in 1850 He first
located in El Dorado county, and was en-
gagged. some years in merchandising in one
OF the early lively camps-Cold Springs
lie also, Tor two years, was in business in
Sacramento city. For the past seventeen
years he has resided in Inyo county, where
he has operated mines with success and
his present business is that of owning and
operating mines. In his youth he had the
advantage OF good common and high
school education, and has ever been a
leading citizen in the communities where
he resided. He is a man Of excellent iutig-
ment good reasoning powers, keen dis
cernment between right and wrong and
for that reason has been repeatedly elected
10 the position of Justice of the Peace. At
home he is called Judge Gould, and owing
to the fact that no decision of his has ever
been reversed by the higher Courts, he is
entitled to that honored distinction. Judge
couIN boo iuI hdi EucNlOuS cApellcilCe
as legislator, but be certainly has reason
to be proud of his success during this SEES
sion. He has introduced several important
measures and succeeded in having them all
passed through the lower house. His AS
sembly joint resolution relative to land
laws applying to timber lands, was one of
the ablest-drawn documents presented to
either house during the session. He also
secured the modification OF the County
Government Act in the interest of his
county, and secured the formation of an
agricultural district in the interest of his
people, an Act to straighten the boundary
line between California and Nevada,
besides being instrumental in the
passage of many good and wholesome gen.
eral laws. As Chairman of the Committee
on Retrenchment, he made an innovation
on precedents established by former Legis-
latures, and by this means saved the State
thousands of dollars. He is never out of
his seat, clear on every proposition, does
not believe in swapping horses" but
votes on the merit OF the bills every time.
He ia q RenuhIicaD
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on committees are deemed of great import
ance, not only in the interest of his con-
stituents but of the State at large, especially
as Chairman of the Committee on Public
Morals, to which has been consigned dur
ing this session a large number of import
ant bills. Mr.. Currey, who was elected 10
his position by a large majority, has evil
IDENTIFY earned for himself at the hands of
his constituents continuance of public
honors. He is Democrat.
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HON. w. 2. PRICE.
Member of the Assembly from the Forty
ninth District, San Mateo.

The representative from the F0rty-ninth
District. w. u. Price, of San Mateo, is a
Republican. He was born in Pulaski
county, XIV, in 1899. His parents were
born in the same State. He came to Cali
fornia thirty years ago, and has lived in
San Mateo county for eighteen years. He
is now engaged in farming and siock-rais-
ing, but was formerly engaged in mining
and butchering. He has held the Office of
School Trustee, and been Chairman of the
Republican County Committee of San
Mateo county for eight years.
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ures and those he champions with an
ability equaled by few. He introduced
many measures, and fought them nearly
all through the House, notwithstanding
some were opposed by the best talent in
the House. He is the champion of the
workingman, and the poor mans friend.
He has been appointed BY President Ceve-
land to the position of United States Dis
lrict Attorney of the Southern District of
California.
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HOY. j. =. VINCENT.
Member of the Assembly from the Seven
tieth Districr, Fresno.

The Seventeen Assembly District. Fres-
no, is represented on the floor of the House
by J. 2. Vincent. of Fresno City. In poll
tics Mr. Vincent is stantb Republican.
He was born in Wisconsin in 1915. and
came along with the Argonauts to Califor-
mia, Fin the days of 40 For the pas five
years lie has resided in the county of Fres-
no. Ills life has been one If varied exper-
fence First he delved for gold in the
mountains of the new Eidorsdo. After
wards he turned his attention to the culti-
walton Of the fertile soil of our valleys; tor
IA time he assumed the profess
ion, ever honorable, Of teacher in
our public schools; tiled bis
fortunes i'll grain speculations. aud at pres
eat be is classed among the first farmers in
that rich and prosperous c,uniy. Stsnislaus.
A man with such an experience, and The
native sbiiiv with which be is endowed.
cannot fail 10 represent with credit bis con-
stitnency. For three years he served as
deputy Assessor If Stanislaus county. MI
Vincent is Chairman If one Of the most
important committees in The lii';ise, tba OF
Irrigation. ard at all their meetings he has
presided with marked ability. he is assn a
member of The Committees en Arrortiei /.
ment. County aud County 81 nndarits. aid
Pahlte Printing His st.efrtes are bret
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States, locating in Minnesota. In 1864 Mr..
Knox was clerk in the Treasury Depart
ment, Washington; graduated at law
college in 1865, and was admitted to the
bar, locating in Chicago for practice until
1873 when he came to California, living in
Selano county until 1883, and then remoy
ing to Los Angeles. In 1856 he was
Deputy District Attorney of Los Angeles.
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HON. EDWIN LEWIS.

Member of the Assembly from the Thirty
first District, San Francisco.
Hon. Edwin Lewis is from San Fran
cisco district. He is native of New York
city. and aged AZ years. He came to Cali
fornia about the year 1857, and has ever
since resided in San Francisco. He has
held no public office before this He is in
politics Democrat. Mr.. Lewis is promi-
nently Unidentified with several benevolent
and oonfraternal associations.
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$780, At that session he opposed the
celebrated drainage bill on the ground
that it was unconstitutional, and the
Supreme Court afterwards concurred
in his opinion He is Chairman of
the Committee on Elections and member
Of several other important committees.
His residence is at CLAW Station.
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HON. FRED W. MccLENAHAN.

Member of the Assembly from the Sixty
First District, Calaverss.
Fred w. McCleDaban, of Milton, repre-
sents the people of Calaveras in the Assem-.
blv He was horn on the Goth day of De-
cembsr, 1923, in Missouri. His father was
a native of Missouri, his mother of Ken
lucky He has resided in this State for the
uast 81 years. the last &c of which he has
passed in Calaveras. He is ] ,siice of the
Peace, Notary Public and Democrat.
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HON. L. C. GRANGER.
Member of the Assembly from the Ninth
District, Butte.

Hon. L. C. Granger, of the Assembly, is
from the Ninth District, Butte county. He
Buckeye State. lie is lawyer, and early
in life was teacher of languages in an
Eastern college. HI read law in Ohio, and
was there admitted to the bar. He came
to California with the flood tide of immi-
grafton in "'49." For thirty years he has
resided in Butte county, but in 1872 he
acted as District Attorney in Los Angeles.
He has filed several positions OF trust, and
was in the Legislature twenty-four years
ago. He was nominated to be Attorney
General in 1868, by his party, the Democ-
racy
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HON. A. b. BUTLER.

Member of the Assembly from The
Seventy-first District, Tulare.
A. B. Butler is physician by profession
and practice. He resides at Grangeryille
and is a Republican. He was born in l847,
in Indiana, and subsequently lived in Ne
braska. He came to this State six years
ago, and has resided in Tulare county since
Although he learned .he art of printing in
early years. he has never followed it. DR..
Butler has not previously held any public
office in this State
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HON. W. ID. MORRIS.
Member of the Assembly from the Fifth
District, 1iodoc and Lassen.

Hon. w. d. Morris is the member of the
Assembly from the Fifth District COM
prising the counties of Modoc and Lassen.
His home IS at Lookout, and his politics
Democratic. Mr.. Morris was born in Mis-
souri, in 1850. His father was native of
Tennessee and his mother of Missouri.
He is teacher by profession, and follows
farming and stock-raising incidentally.
He has lived in California for ten years,
and in his present county nine years. He
has held a number of positions. He was g
School Commissioner in Missouri. In Cal
ifornia he has been Deputy County Clerk,
Deputy County Assessor, Notary Public
and Justice of the Peace.
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HON. f. NJ. COOLEY.
Member of the Assembly from the Fifty
fourth District, Alameda.

Hon. F. NJ. Cooley represents the Fifty.
fourth Assembly District, Alameda county
81 is a native of New York. and was born
in 1885. He has resided twelve years III
California, and is solicitor. He was Cap
tain in the Eleventh United States Infantry
in 1861, and served in the army for ten
years; was made Breyet-Major in 1864, for
gallant service in the field, and on the same
day was breveted Lieutenant Colonel. For
a decade he served the Government as a
revenue officer. In politics he is a Repub-
lican
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HON. d. n. sHERBURNE.
Member of the Assembly from The Fifty
Seventh District, Contra Cosa

D. n. Sherturnc, Of Danville, Republic
can, represents Contra Costa county, being
the Fiity-seventh District He was born
at Fol ,omdale, Wyoming county, N. Y, in
1922. He came to California thirty six
years ago and has lived in Contra Costa
county for thirty years. He isnow engaged
in farming and stock raising. He has held
the Office of Supervisor in Contra Costa
county for fourteen years and represented
the county in the Assembly in 1880.
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HON. L. l.. EWING.

Assemblyman from the Forty-third Dis
trict, San Francisco.
Luther i. Ewing is q native of Pennsyl-
varia, and IL years of age. He came to
California thirteen years ago, and has ever
since resided in San Francisco. Formerly
he was contractor, but at present follows
the profession of accountant He has never
before held any public position. although
active in the ranks of the Republican party.
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HON. VIM. A. BRows.

Member OF the Assembly from the Forty
fifta District, San Francisco.
Mr.. Brown is native of Illinois, and is
50 years of age. His parents were both
born in the United States. He came to Cali
fornia in 1852, and is at present engaged in
the mineral water business in San Fran
cisco, where he has resided the past seven
years. He has occupied positions in the
Offices OF the County Clerk and assessor.
In politics he is a Republican.
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HON. C. F. CURRY.

Assemblyman from the Thirty-sixth Dis
trict, San Francisco.
Mr.. Curry was born in Illinois, March
IA, 1853. He received High School edu.
cation, and i'll 1873 came with his fathers
family to San Francisco. He is Republic
can, and received over 200 majority in a
strong Democratic district. He has not
held public Office before.
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HON. MED II. vfNABIE.

Member of the Assembly from the Sew
enty-ih rd District, San Luis obispo.
Med R. Venable, a Democrat, of San
Luis Obispo, is the Assemblyman from the
Seventy-third District. He was born in
Charlotte county, Virginia, in 1886, his pa
rents being also Virginians. He came to
California in 1868, and has resided in San
Luis Obispo county since 1869. He is a
lawyer by profession. He was County
Judge of San Luis Obispo from 1872 to
1880 He also served in the Confederate
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HON. A. Nj. LAWRENCE.

Member OF the Assembly from the Thirty
second District, San Francisco.
Hon. A. NJ. Lawrence, Assemblyman for
the rThirty-second District, San Francisco,
was born in that city in 1862 of foreign
parentage. He is practical newspaper
that be now fills. He was an attache of
the State Senate in 1880. In politics he is
a a,pacr,t
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HON. j. u. BROWN.

member CT the Assembly from the Tween
ty-Ninth District, San Francisco.
Hon. James 8. Brown, from the Twenty
ninth Assembly District, San Francisco
was born in San Francisco, of Irish pa
rents. He has known no other home but
the Bay City. He is by vocation a steve
oore, and until the late campaign had not
entered the lists for public office.
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HON. j. II. COLBERT.
Assembiyman from the Thirty-f,fth Dis
trict San Frauc;scO

John II. Colbert was born in Massachu-
sets, in 1915. His parents were natives OF
New York. He is stationer by present
occupation. but is blacksmith by trade
He has lived in San Francisco since conf
ing to the State. twenty-tlree years ago
He has never held any public position, and
is a Democrat
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HON. G. w. MORGAN.
Member of the Assembly from the
Twenty. third District, Sonoma.

OVERWHELMED District, SOnOma.
George w. Morgan, who represents the
Twenty-Ihird District, Sonoma county, is a
Democrat, and resides at Fort Ross. He
was born in Virginia in 1885, of which
State his parents were also natives. He
has lived in California and in Sonoma
county for five years. He is engaged in the
hotel business. He is also the fortunate
owner of $50 acres of timber land, and last
season derived from this source nearly
$4,000 for bark, etc. He has not preyi-
ously held any public position.
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HON. L. IL. GRUWELL.

Assembly man from the Twelfth District,
Lake.
Laban Harding Orwell was born in Ohio
in 1886 aud came to California in 1S49 He
has resided in Lake county since 1875, where
he engaged in the livery and stage bust
ness, and is also engaged in the raising of
live stock. He is Democrat, and has held
local public offices in his county. where he
hes always been an active party man.
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HON. RICHARD. COHEN.

Member of Assembly from the Forty
fourth District, San Francisco.
Hon. Richard Cohen was sent to the
House from the Forty-fourth Assembly
District, San Francisco He is a native of
California, being born of French parentage
in this State III 1853 He is q clerk, has
served as a book-keeper, and has not before
filled any official station. In politics he is
n Democrat
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HON. THOMAS MITCHELL.
Member Of ths Assembly from the Forty
seventh District. San francisco.

Thomas f. Mitchell, representing the
Forty seventh District, San Francisco, was
born in Randolph, Mass, in 1854. His
father was born in Ireland and his mother
in Massachusetts. He has lived in Cali
fornia twenty years, and all the time in the
Assembly District which he represents
He is Il carpenter and builder Mr.. Nit.
chell has not previously held any public
office
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HON. j. II. MATTHEWS.
Assembiyman from the sixty-eighfh Dis
tr.ct San BenitO.

J II. Matthews was born in Morgan
c,unty, Alabama, in 1919, and came TO CAL
if lrnia in 1852 For the last II years he
h s resided in San Benito county, where he
is engaged in stock raising. He has filled
various public positions in this and other
States, and served three regular sessions in
the California Legislature.
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public schools of his county. 10 politics
he is q Democrat
non. DANIEL 5. REGAIN.

Member of the Assembly from the Tliir-
ty-eighth District, San Francisco.
Daniel s. Regain represents the Thirty
He was born in California in 1854. His
parents were natives of the United States.
Heis a mechanical engineer. He has lived
in San Francisco for thrty-one years, snd
has never held public position. He is a
Democrat
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HON. THOMAS NJ. sEAgY.

Member of the Assembly from the Thirty
seventh District, San Francisco.
Thomas NJ Seary, of the Thirty-seventh
District, San Francisco, is Democrat He
was born in England in 1854, his parents
being natives of Ireland. He is a machine
blacksmith. He has lived in California
twenty five years; all of that time in San
Francisco. He has not previously held any
public position.
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Assembly man from the Fortieth District
San Francisco.

Andrew Martin is a Native Son of the
Golden West, having been born in San
Francisco in 1857. Formerly he was ma
chinist. but at present is engaged in the
liquor business. lie was for a time Dep
uty Sheriff in his native city, but this is
his first legislative experience. He is Re-
nnblican.
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HON. RUSSELL HEATH.
Member of the Assembly from the Twen-
fv-fourth District Santa Rarbara

ty-fonrth District, SANTA Barbara.
One of the ablest representatives on the
floor of the House is the Hon. Russell
Heath, of Carpenteria. Santa Barbara
county. He is a native of New York !;
came to California in 1s49. and was mar
ried in 1856 He had just finished his law
studies in the Empire State when he was
seized with the then prevalent gold fever
and came west He passed 40, 80, 81 and
80 in the mines, delving for the precious
metal. In the latter year he went to Santa
Barbara and commenced the practice of his
profession. Was appointed District Attor-
ney of the county in 1853: held that posi-
ton until the spring of 1854, when he was
appointed Sheriff, which Office he held for
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Member of the Assembly from Fifteenth
District, Nevada.

John l. Sykes of the Fifteenth District.
is the other representative from Nevada
county. He is also Republicans, and re-
sides at Grass Valley. He was born in ST.
Lawrence county. n. Y, in 1877, his pa
rents being natives OF New England. He
is a mining man, and has resided i'll Cali
fornia since July IS. 1910, and thirty-five
years in Nevada county. He has been
Postmaster, County Recorder and Auditor.
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HON. II. Il. MANN.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT from the Forty first Dis
trict, San francisco.
Henry r. Mann was born in Albion,
Mich, in 1872, and came to California
when 10 years of age. He is prominent
insurance agent in San Francisco, being a
member of the firm of Hutchinson &
Mann. This is his first experience in pub
lie life He is Democrat, but living
proof of the fact that one may be Demo-
crat and be man for all that
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HON. JESSE COPE.
Member of the Assembly from the
Fifticth District, santa Cruz

Hon. Jesse Cope is from the Fiftieth As,
sembly District, Santa Cruz. He is ma
tive of Missouri, aged Al, and has resided
in California since he was eighteen years
of age, and in Santa Cruz county since
1873 Early in life he followed mining
but is now merchant. Prior to his cleo.
ton to the Assembly he had filled no off.
cial station.
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HON. z. HANDY.
a ssembiyman from the Eleventh District,


MendOCinO.
Philo Handy was born in Ohio in 1871,
and came TO California in 1864. In 1870 he
took up his residence in Mendocino, where
he is engaged in stock raising and the mill
ing business He was soldier during the
late war, serving under Grant in an Illinois
regiment, and was wounded at Shiloh He
Us a Republican, but represents a strong
Democratic county, which is an indie ition
of his popItlarity.
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HON. JOSEPH BURNETT.
Member of the Assembly for the Thirtieth
District, San Francisco.

The representative of the Thirtieth Dis
trict is Joseph Burnett, q Republican He
was born in New York in 1857 His father
was a native of Wisconsin, and his mother
of Nova Scotia: Mr. Burnett has not before
been in public life, buthas principally fol-
lowed his trade, that of carpenter. and has
been a resident of San Francisco for the
past sixteen years, at the commencement
of which period he came TO this State.
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HON. EDWARD sMY,HE.

Member of the Assembly from the Sixty
second District, ruolumne.
Edward Smythe of the Sixty-second Dis
trict, Tuolumne county. was born in Ire
land in 1923. He is a shoemaker by occu-
patton He came to California in 1858, and
has lived in TGolumne for twenty.six years.
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HON. JOHN ELLSWORTH.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT from the Fifty-second Dis
trict, Alameda.
John Ellsworth is native of Connecti-
cut, and As years of age. He has been
resident of Alameda county for nineteen
years, the last ten of which he has held the
office of City Attorney of Alameda He is
Chairman of the Judiciary Committee of
the Assembly, and a Republican in politics
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HON. w. j. HoTCHKIss.
Member of the Assembly from the Twenty
fourth District Sonnma

Hon. w. J. Hoichkiss is a native Of
Kentucky, and is 80 years of age. He has
lived in California lwenty-six years, and
for twenty-three in Sonoma, the county he
represents in the Assembly. He is an agri.
cullurist, and has been school teacher
He did not before election to the Assembly
aspire to fill any other public position.
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HON. j. j. cALLAeHAs.
Member OF Assembly from the Thirty
third District San Francisco.

third District, San Francisco.
Hon. J. j. Callaghan represents the
Thirty-third Assembly District, San Fran
CISCO He is of Irish parentage, and was
born in San Francisco in 1860. He follows
the vocation of collector, prior to that being
engaged in the grocery and provision bust
ness. He has served the Board of Harbor
Commissioners as collector, and in the
Legislature of 1888 represented in the AS
sembly the Ninth District.
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HON. HUGH TONER.

Member of the Assembly from the Forty
sixth District, San Francisco.
Hugh Toner, the Assemblyman from the
Forty-sixth District of San Francisco, is a
Democrat. He was born in Ireland in 1861
and came to California in 1869. He has re-
sided in San Francisco county ever since.
He is coal dealer by occupation, and has
never before held public office.